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I've got this bash one-liner , it runs fine on OSX, but doesn't on Linux, I'm suspecting the linux distro (Busybox) on my Qnap has got something to do with this .
Here is the command that runs on OSX ...

I managed somehow to install an insidious toolbar. It modified many of my browser settings but one is especially puzzling.
By typing chrome://version in the address bar I've noticed the following in ...

When running osk.exe from the command line, how do you disable or hide keys such as Alt, Crl, and Fn? We're developing some software that'll be run in a slightly risky setting (using kiosks), and we ...

I'm trying to launch a PowerShell session via PSexec with alternate colors and some window attributes. The reason why I would need to run PowerShell through PSExec is so that I can have a ready-made ...

There is an installed application(A) and there is a separately installed launcher application(L). This launcher application launches the application(A) and sets some command line arguments(parameters) ...

I'm running a nightly version of Firefox (aptly called "Nightly"), and there's a problem.
Given this is a nightly release, one of the recent updates, pretty much make Firefox unusable - it'll crash ...

Example: Google Outstanding Shares are 670,000,000 and this value is collected in a txt file from Yahoo Finance API via the below script. The issue is; that numbers WITH commas or spaces are a bloody ...

I was wondering if there is any Linux command I can use to check whether I have RAID setup on my machine? I know about cat /proc/mdstat but didn't show me anything meaningful.
I just want to know if ...

Showing processes for 1 user is rather easy with Top: top -u someuser1 or by hitting u while top is running. Is there any way to make Top show processes specifically for 2 (or more) users?
An example ...

I have a shortcut in Rocketdock that will trigger my screensaver using flipss. However, the screensaver starts right away and the dock won't auto-hide until the mouse is no longer hovering over it. ...

I've found the following command to get your current public IP that works well from command line:
nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com
I want to be able to run a command though that JUST ...

I need to create a windows batch script where I need to pass a few command-line arguments. These arguments may appear in in any order, but the script should pick them up properly based on the argument ...

What are the command line arguments you can use for TextPad? I've searched for this but TextPad doesn't document this.
We have an external application; when the user clicks a button our application ...

I'm trying to use realpath in a script which has to ensure that it is located under a certain (possibly symlinked) path. Also the script has to be runnable from any location, so it cannot presume that ...

I want to pass arguments manually on the Windows command line consisting of hex values of the byte e.g. "\x41\x42\x43\x44" - a sequence of 4 bytes on the cmd.exe command line to a program.
How do I ...

Using robocopy on Windows 8 to automate backing up several different groups of files.
It labels all of them as "MODIFIED" all the time though even if I just ran it and haven't touched the files.
How ...

I see lots of examples using FFMpeg to make a video file from a set of images. I can also see how to do the opposite if I want individual files. However, I want the images to be pushed to stdout. This ...